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EXCITING NEWS
A new art gallery will be opening this year in the heart of Bungay
Barbara and Brendon Bernard are in the process of transforming a building in Broad Street, Bungay, Suffolk into an art gallery to serve the local art community. Barbara is a local painter herself and member of the Harleston and Waveney Art Trail Collective. Brendon is a retired businessman and South Norfolk District Councillor. They are hoping to be ready to open their doors by late Spring/early Summer 2026.
Broad Street Gallery, Bungay
The Broad Street Gallery is offering rented space from which you can sell your artwork. The manning of the gallery is shared between the exhibitors on a rota basis.
The gallery contains approximately 38 linear metres of wall space that can be shared comfortably by about six artists, making it an affordable option for group exhibitions. Artists can also hire the whole space for solo shows. Exhibitions are usually four weeks with hanging on the Sunday before the first week. You can also hire the whole gallery for a group of artists who wish to curate their own exhibition.
The gallery provides good lighting, a professional hanging system (STAS), publicity via their website, Instagram, and printed leaflets for you to distribute. It encourages you to have a preview or “Meet the Artists” event, usually on the first Thursday evening. There will be some shelving and a few tables for small work, greeting cards and 3-D pieces, but 3-D artists must supply their own plinths. All artists are welcome to bring their own browsers for unframed work.
New Exhibitions at Wingfield Barns 2026
Christine McKechnie
How to apply for space:
In order to ensure that the quality of work on display remains consistently high (and in order for the gallery to build interesting group and solo shows with compatible but varied artists), the gallery asks you to apply by contacting:
Barbara Bernard with your name, contact details, a short bio and artist’s statement, and 3 to 5 good quality images that are representative of your work (at least 1MB each). The gallery will get back to you in due course. Once you have been accepted, exhibiting opportunities, available dates, size of space, etc. can be discussed.
Please email info@broadstreetgallery.co.uk
9 Broad Street I Bungay I Suffolk I NR35 1EE
T 07786 998694
Studio 2: Rosemary Elliott
Saltmarsh acrylic on canvas 70 x 70 cm
Harleston & Waveney Art Trail
Open Studio
Brockdish, Norfolk
Opens 10am - 5 pm
Sat & Sun 17th & 18th May
Sat 24 to Mon 26th May 2025
Paintings, Prints and Ceramics
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Past Exhibitions
Wingfield Barns 2022
Artist friend Rachel Spender exhibited
a series of her stunning black and white photographs of the Essex salt marshes at Wingfield Barns 30 July to 4 September 2022. Using film cameras leaning out of a small aeroplane and hand printing in the darkroom, Rachel uses aerial photographs to focus on abstract patterns, textures and sculptural forms. Recent exhibitions include Firstsite Gallery, Colchester and Mill Tye Gallery, Sudbury.
About RA Schools East Anglia Group
The Royal Academy Schools East Anglia Group are artists who graduated from the RA Schools at different times since the 1950s and who now live and work in East Anglia. The group was formed in 2011 and has exhibited across the region and continues to welcome new members.
Previous exhibitions have been held at the Minories Gallery, Colchester; Halesworth Gallery; Peter Pears Gallery Aldeburgh; RE + New Woodbridge; The Old Fire Engine House, Ely; Mandell's Gallery, Norwich and Wingfield Barns, Suffolk.
In celebration of the Royal Academy Schools 250th anniversary the group published 'Legacy' designed by graduate Jelena Lukić The book is a collection of memories and images by graduates who consider how their training has impacted on their development as artists.
Many of the paintings included were shown at their recent group show at the Minories Gallery, Colchester.
A preview of each individual artist can be seen in the triangle link where copies of the book can be ordered directly from Blurb.
Behind the Scenes: Doug Kemp
Doug was in my year at Walthamstow School of Art in the 1960s and like me completed his postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy Schools. He was a senior lecturer at Loughborough College of Art and Design from 1971 to 1993.
Doug describes himself as a colour and line man who ‘collects’ anything seen or felt from his life and time span - it’s called zeitgeist these days. He has just as much love of 10th Century Romanesque wall painting as the golden age of comics, all line and colour people. He is an Industrial City Painter, which used to be called a Modernist fifty years ago. Everyone has influenced him, in particular Art Deco, Ferdinand Leger and Max Beckmann.
Now in his eighties, his work output is prolific spending time every day in his Suffolk studio on large scale paintings and printmaking. His work is narrative with dark forces within a comic style. With themes that embrace retro times, his characters are simultaneously humorous, tragic, sexy and visually dynamic. His work is in private and public collections in the UK, Europe and USA.
